Here we begin to see a little of what is wrong with Cock, perhaps; what is wrong with his life, continuing from the last chapter.
Dolen El is probably the hardest character I’ve ever written, harder even than the freeman Kellis from Beasts of Delphos. While Cock has his quirks, he’s ultimately a decent person; Dolen […]
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The Seven-Year Mirror: Routine
Published by October 1st, 2007 in The Seven-Year Mirror 1: Cool. 0 CommentsThe Seven-Year Mirror: Noblesse Oblige
Published by September 22nd, 2007 in The Seven-Year Mirror 1: Cool. 3 CommentsWith this we get our first true taste of Cock, and it’s not really good.
He is definitely an antihero. Abusive, arrogant, possibly a rapist; yet here is a throwaway sentence that I think sums him up, what he is, what is probably the core theme of this novel: Bless my sins, for I was fathered.
Here […]
The Seven-Year Mirror: The Noumenon of Me
Published by September 18th, 2007 in The Seven-Year Mirror 1: Cool. 0 CommentsContinuing an earlier experiment, here’s the current rev of chapter 3 from The Seven-Year Mirror.
The speaker in these intercalary passages is Tirra Shujaa, a native Talec man who is trying to grasp how and why he seems so different from his brother Treva, who is his genetic identical twin.
Tirra’s life crosses paths eventually with a […]
The Seven-Year Mirror: No Wake
Published by July 10th, 2007 in The Seven-Year Mirror 1: Cool. 1 CommentWell, the posting continues. Here we’re first introduced to Cock, Fan, Rip, Tube and Blade, as well as the arguably shallow lives they lead. Castor is largely a resort planet, and its culture can be quite misogynistic — so don’t think it’s just Blade who gets treated badly there.
Cock’s life is depressing, and so is […]
The Seven-Year Mirror: An Experiment: Prolegomenon
Published by July 2nd, 2007 in The Seven-Year Mirror 1: Cool. 4 CommentsI’m going to try something a little different here, though nothing that’s never been done before. A while back I let a character, Cock, leak onto this blog; he’s actually a principal from a work in progress called The Seven-Year Mirror. Overall I think the narrative is doing well but it’s stalled; I’m going to […]
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